Paring and pitting knife



Feb. 27, 1923.

W. ELMENTHALER.

PARING AND FITTING KNIFE.

FILED JULY 22,1922- ];zzrmiar A tt 0 71% Patented Feb. 27, 1923 N TED LIST TESQ Application filed Jul 22,

To allwvho m it-mag c oneem:

1 Be 1t known that I,'\VILLIAtru-Efirnw THALER, a citizen of the United States, re-

the following is a specification;

as a paring knife,

.convenient means. i

siding in Clevelancb' 'rounty of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Faring and Fitting Knife,'of which My invention relates-to knives adapted for operation on vegetables, fruits, and sim5 ilarobjects. x l

The object of my invention is aneflicient and simple knife adapted to operate either or as a pitting knife, or as both, or as a knife for other allied operations. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a general perspective view of a paring and pitting knife embodying the features of the present invention;

2 is a section, on a larger scale, on line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section, on'a larger scale, of the front end of the blade on line 3 of Fig. 1; 4 is a modification of a curved blade. I I I Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

The knife shown in the drawing is made of one piece of metal and has the blade portion 10 and the looped handle portion 11,

The blade. portion 10 is curved transversely, as seen-in Fig. 2,. and longitudinally, as seen in Fig. 3, and has the cutting edge 12; both of thesecurvations merge; and ter--. minate in the point'13.

The knife, as a whole, may conveniently be formed of commercial bar stock and the blade portion is-formed by forging orother Near the. pointed end 18 ofi'the blade portion and in the hollow thereof, are the teeth 14 which are similar to the teeth of a rasp file and may be produced on this blade portion in a'manner similar tothe production of teeth on a rasp file.

. For some purposes, as pitting apples for instance, it may be more convenient to omit the point 13 and the longitudinal curvature on the blade portion and form this blade portion with the transverse'curvature only. as seen in Fig. 4. The blade portion shown here isprovided with the cutting edge 15 and the teeth 16 which may, conveniently,

be formed similarto the .teeth 14. I a This modification may also have the outting edge 17 at the front end so that the lqin relation to peel can: be removed therefrom; either the" point 13 or one corner of the front-end off 1922; serial iibfsv asea other fruitA-fter the blade is so; inserted, 1a

.rotative movement of the: knife will cut z out the. pit-without much loss ofthe meat of the fruit.

The loop be inserted ,{therethrough while the index a the handle ortion is formed" so that the three last fingers :of a handmay portion as seen inFig. 15" and the thumb is 1 free to bear upon the fruit while the knife is in operation.

The knife provlded with 'such a loop handle can be kept on the three fingers whileoperating on a quantity of fruit and leaves the end of these three fingers as well as the index finger and the thumb'free for disposing of the fruit which has been operated upon and picking up a new fruit without removing the knife from the fingers, thereby saving considerable time.

resides in the fact that'the hand does not tire as easy as with the usual form of handle.-

It is, of course, obvious that a handle of the usual form can be applied to the curved blade of the present invention if desired. The spoonformed front end of the blade and the teeth therein serve the purpose of readily engaging the pit onseed stone of' such fruits as cherr es.

purposes; onlya v For paring potatoes, the convex surface of the blade is disposed toward the potato and, by tilting the knife to difl'erentangles the potato, a thickor thin the knife shown in Fig. 4 serve the purpose vof digging out the eyes or other depressions;

' 'For removing thejpit or seed stone of a cherry, insert'the point of the knifeinto the cherry adjacent the pit and rest the thumb "against the side of the cherry,

then pull upward on-the knife while holding the cherry downward with the thumb, whereupon the pit, gripped by the .spoonlike end 'and the 'teeththerein, is easilyremoved from the cherry without loss of juice andwithout roducing a largehole in the. cherry.

Modifications may be made either in the I blade, or in: the handle, or in both, within.

A further advantage of this loop handle 7 the scope of the appended claims; therefore,

. Without limiting myself to the precise 011- struotion shown and described;

' I claim:

l. A paring and pitting knlfe comprising side to pare vegetables andvwith teeth on the inside of this pointed end to grip stones when pitting'i'ruit, and? handle onthe otherendof said knife. i

2. A one piece pa-r'ing-"and pitting-knife comprising a spoonsh'epedblade portion provided with a] pointed end to dig eyes 0ut"of vegetables and with a cutting edge on one side to pure vegetables and With teeth on the inside otthis pointed end togrip stones when"pitting'ffuit, a handle portion adjacent said, blade portion, and a retainer portion looped over said handle portion.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signatin'e in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM ELMENTHALER. VVitne'sses: H i

EFL B OWN, SWIFT M. LO'WERYII I 

